Siobhán Bromley

Hey all,

I was perusing yummy moleskines website the other day and low and behold I stumbled across my own artwork. I got featured! I’m so flattered to find my work on another blog, specially amongst other featured artists of such talent.

Check it out and other moleskine porn at: http://www.moleskinerie.com/2009/01/inspiration-.html.

Happy thursday to you all…not long until the weekend now!!

Well, it would seem that my devious plan for sketchbook domination is working and I am cycling through the pages of my moleskine. It’s only early days but I’m now at the stage where if I have to something normal such as housework or eating, I find myself trying to hurry it along so I can get back to my scribbles. And I know it’s bad but if I’m chatting to someone I find I’m often thinking, ‘I could be listening to you AND doodling…damn those unspoken social etiquette rules!!’.

Good Morrow one and all,

I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who has taken the time to visit my little www bubble. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Fanks!

Anyway,  here’s another page of swirliness:

Sooo, I couldn’t help but notice that there a websites a plenty out there with artists paying homage to their sketchbooks. So, I decided to climb on the bandwagon. In a bid to force myself to doodle more (one can never doodle enough!!!), I intend to doodle at least a page of my moleskine every day on top of any other work I may be doing. This may or may not work but I’ll never know unless I give it a bash. As part of my initiative I shall start posting some of my sketchbook pages for you all to see the inner workings of my puny brain. I hope that this will encourage me to be less afraid of showing my artistic mistakes to the world and become more confident.

Here are two recent doodles:

I have just spent a rather lovely morning at a prep school in Norwich as a ‘visiting artist’. This is was a very surreal experience for me as I still struggle to call myself an artist with conviction. To me, the word ‘artist’ conjures up images of the great masters throughout time; Carravaggio, Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Dali, Rackham. I hardly feel that I am worthy of being part of such a collective.

None the less, I had a wonderful time taking part in the school’s ‘Tudor Day’. The teachers and children were all dressed in marvelous period costumes and a parent was acting as Queen Elizabeth I for the day. My job was to play the Royal court artist. I sat with the children and drew the Queen’s portrait with them. It was all very proper and authentic, I have to say, and the staff did a wonderful job of bringing history alive. There were even real life minstrels, the Mayor of Norwich and a re-enactment of a knighting ceremony!

I thought I’d post the portrait I did. It’s not a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination but it was a fun quicky. Plus, I did it in pastels which I have not used for over 10 years…I think I shall be amending that! I forgot what a fabulous medium it is.